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For telecom czar Sunil Mittal he was always “Mr Dependable,” whether the job involved expanding Airtel’s network in over 600,000 villages as its managing director or replicating the low-cost network model in over 17 countries of Africa after the takeover of Zain Telecom. A balanced risk taker, he convinced Mittal to take the plunge in an uncharted area — renewable energy — setting up operations from scratch in SB Energy in collaboration with Japanese investor SoftBank.
After a five-year stint as executive chairman of SB Energy, Manoj Kohli will be SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son’s rainmaker. Kohli, who took charge as
